Knockbrack

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrack, from 619 m² to 31,467 m² (3.15 ha, 7.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockbrack in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 12 Nov 2021Conditional

  demolition of existing single storey extension to rear of existing bungalow and construction of a new single storey extension to rear including upgrading works to septic tank, new percolation area and all associated landscaping and site works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 21235

• 14 Nov 2017Conditional

  development consisting of (a) the demolition of existing extension and demolition of the roof to existing dwelling, (b) the construction of a new single storey extension to the rear and single room extension to the side of the existing dwelling, a new roof and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 17206

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Bunduff Lough and Machair/Trawalua/Mullaghmore SAC 000625
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bunduff Lough And Machair/Trawalua/Mullaghmore 000625

Recorded monuments

• LE001-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as two conjoined embanked enclosures on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated on top of a gentle rise. The E feature is a subcircular, grass-covered earthen platform (dims 25m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.3-0.5m), except E-SE where it is incorporated into a natural slope (H c. 3m). It is truncated slightly by a NNW-ESE field bank at W and a NE-SW field bank at N. There is no indication of a fosse or of an original entrance. The ringfort (LE001-004001-) is just to the NW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revised upload: 11 December 2015

• LE001-004001 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Marked as two conjoined embanked enclosures on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated on an undulating landscape. There is no indication of the W feature but the E feature is the remains of a rath (LE001-004----). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 December, 2015

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockbrack.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1201 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Knockbrack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Knockbrack · An Cnoc Breac

Area

112,308 m² (11.23 ha, 27.75 acres)

Civil parish

Rossinver, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Tullaghan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tullaghan electoral division: 755 people in 318 households; 71% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corbeg, Lisgool, Redbrae

Placenames

Knockbrack on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.